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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 16 days ago

Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Ancient IBM wisdom (from 1979) that the bosses just straight up promptly forgot

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Rose@piefed.social to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 16 days ago
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Apparently a page from an internal IBM training manual. Some further attempts at source it

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  • xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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    Ah, from back when people still had critical thinking faculties in good working order.

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      Back when tech is still dominated by hippies and not fascists.

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        I have bad news about IBM’s past as regards fascists.

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

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    Reminds me of Woz’s old saying “Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.”

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    And when computers make all management decisions, let us not forget that managers told them to do so, lest we forget whom to hold accountable.

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      You know shit only flows downhill right?

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    A computer can 100% be held accountable. Someone made the decision to put a computer in charge. That person is 100% responsible.

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      Unless that person leaves and the system they implemented remains

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        the VP accepted the risk

        Ok, and you fired him, and the replacement… did they accept all the risk too?

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          If they accepted the job, absolutely yes. ignorantia juris non excusat.

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